This is Edition 3 of the Backlog. This covers the month of Semptember '06 only. A productive time!




The looping method is borne! This is the beginning of PHASE2, of IALT.

This lasted nearly a year, between Sept'06<->June'07.

REMEMBER, this is completely live, & original material. all lyrics improv'ed.


All Tomorrows Raves - Driving Electro Loops, Psych guitar, breakdowns & Kickdowns...
What can I say, this is the jam that started it all. One of our first ever recorded Loop-Jams! This song, Fondly dubbed Techno.1, makes it's appearance throughout all PHASES of IALT to come.

You can hear how the loop powers out of one amp, (left side), while the performed guitar & vocals sit to the right. We go to town on the concept, also christening our tendency to "play-through" an idea, taking it as many places as we could in one long stretch.

Brood.1 +bonus track - Self-named quality, a repetitive dark melody, most interesting in its vocal moments. (first 6 minutes) Hauntingly familiar, which 80's pop song is this biting? Someone tell me! A bonus bass & drums jam at the end for those who make it all the way through.

Creepy Dark - Soundtracky ambient interlude. barely audible acoustic guitar makes another appearance.

Does it turn Red - Slow groove jam, original version. This is one of the few re-worked into out live set from this period. You'll hear the live versions in upcoming posts.

Paper & Crayons pt1 - A very short loop frustrates us to the extent we decide to completely DESTROY IT! I try unsuccessfully to find something brilliant to go with it, until committing to a simple overdub, which layers, layers, layers, layers, & layers; overdubs ad infinitum......

Paper & Crayons pt2 - Roiling clouds of over-looped notes sting & coruscate, a Dominant root carrys into a shockingly fast drum beat, and SWOOP! Behold the far-eastern scale tek-epic! YOu won't believe the 3rd transition, somehow disintegrating into Wall-of-sound Melodic rock! Singing is the payoff!

Mini-Gypsy - A nice pastoral sounding loop, one of my earliest. I'll recreate this texture for a soundtrack sometime. I believe it's all acoustic guitar.

This is Edition 2 of the Backlog. Pt.2 of the set from April'06-Aug'06.


Fly the whole playlist!   Or some other Options


Anything Divides
Lounge latin turns gritty pop-punk

Bees
Oh how we love the Doers.  This is straight up homage, with a led zeppelin twist.

Collective Sigh (2)
Uptempo & stylized version.  Nice balance between readyness & hesitation.

Fairchild(2)
higher sound q. & tightness of previous post.

Future Is Assured
ok. ok.  terrible vocal volume.  radiohead prog-folk song with a twist. you have to listen all the way to the end.  The 2 left turns made my head spin.  I want to re-adapt this one too!

Say What you Mean
It's on, booty shakin, hump makin, trash-talkin, limp-walkin killer new school dance-o-matic!
  we will re-release this song, so don't even think about stealin!  ;-)

This is Edition 1 of the Backlog. Covers the period from April'06-Aug'06.





This is PT1 of the Original set for It's a Living Thing. We were brand new, less than a month of playing together. 2 Piece Rock. Check out the whole playlist.  Also other Options



Collective Sigh
New-grunge melody rock. We uptempoed later versions, sounding like a minimalist strokes.

Fairchild*
Moody slow groove. gets dancy at the epic part. someone told me its a pantera riff backwards.

Forest For the Wood*
Near-Metal song. I remember jamming this with Cris Derksen. She did this metal cello solo thing that made my millenium. Still can't get her to join the band. The irony is, her loop pedal using twigged me to check out loop-function on my DL4, about 2 weeks later!

Say What you Mean**
Brand new written for the band April'06. This was my exact ideal at the time, dance-rock pop-metal.

Jam to the Future, Proceed with caution
Already our jams were going epic 70's psych metal style!  This recording was a first run totally original jam.  Writing this reminds me to use this song again.

Standing in a snowstorm
Turn down your speakers.  My favorite noise rock band at the time was leviathans, from vancouver. I'd have trendster points for using "this sound" of our band.  I can't compromise to sounding this way all the time. & never think its not a compromise to stick to one stylistic niche.

* - Original Daemon13 songs
**-other versions!

Welcome to our musical blog. or MLOG. (I hope we coined the term, but not likely.)

This differs from an Audioblog.

1: All music is created by us.
2: All posts are NON-finished products. These are the ORIGINAL JAMS. This is a dialogue, not a showcase of polished works. Tracks are edited for time, with no mixing, overdubs, replacements, or tweaks.
3: All music is uploaded (hopefully) within the week it was created.
4: We want your criticism but not your judgement.


We hope you can understand our simple desire to share our creativity, outside the stifling format of the commercial music marketplace (which is a cutthroat arena). This gives the opportunity to share those ideas which would never see the light of day. Please take inspiration & joy from this communication, & feel free to re-interpret our ideas. Give credit where credit is due, send us your mix/cover/whatever, & make reference to us when applicable.

Also, tell your friends, fav. bands, college radio DJ's & anyone else, to tap into the It's a Living Thing Experience

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